Example sentences of "[vb past] [noun] [prep] [art] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shirley was a good runner , and she caught Heather up a few yards from the fire . |
| 2 | Revenues for Scholastic Corporation , the American parent company , rose 13% for the half year to $256.9m . |
| 3 | To have released Meehan from seven years of wrongful imprisonment , recommended a free pardon for him , and then to have arrested and charged Waddell for the same crime would have required a greater degree of resolution than either of them possessed . |
| 4 | ‘ Look here ! ’ exclaimed Peter at the same moment . |
| 5 | He caught sight of a few others , but they turned tail and vanished when they saw him through the mist . |
| 6 | The Canadian analysis confirmed the findings of a recent US General Accounting Office study that found prices for the same drug to be higher in the United States than in Canada . |
| 7 | In June 1989 another Soviet submarine caught fire in the same area , and this time Norwegian scientists reported evidence of a small radioactive leak . |
| 8 | Most found jobs within a few weeks and the longest any of them was unemployed was three months . |
| 9 | A former Armed Forces Minister , Maj. Umaru Djalo , who had served under President Luis de Almeida Cabral , who had been overthrown in 1980 by the coup bringing President Joao Bernardo Vieira to power , sought asylum at the same time . |
| 10 | ‘ They caused trouble on the least provocation . |
| 11 | Two proposed changes to the Constitution , both affecting the role of Parliament , caused controversy in the latter part of 1989 and the beginning of 1990 . |
| 12 | It was she who , commenting on the Sharon Tate murder in August 1969 , said ‘ Dig it , first they killed those pigs , then they ate dinner in the same room with them , then they even shoved a fork into a victim 's stomach ! |
| 13 | She affected Luke in the same way as he did her . |
| 14 | Anne studied Robyn for a few moments . |
| 15 | They also needed to be extended to permit inspectors to examine aircraft of a similar type to the one involved in an accident and to establish whether they also showed signs of the same sort of failure . |
| 16 | In the 1970s , genetic engineering made it possible to clone human insulin genes in micro-organisms which secreted insulin with the same structure as natural human material . |
| 17 | VCT Chairman Chris Smyth paid tribute to the many members who had helped with the project with special thanks to Jackie and Mike Cope who were the prime movers behind the museum . |
| 18 | The church of St Margarets in the shadow of the Houses of parliament was filled today with politicians from both sides of the house who paid tribute to the former MP for Cirencester and Tewkesbury Nicholas Ridley . |
| 19 | The French pressure group " Nature Environment " lobbied congress with the same demand . |
| 20 | Mortimer , who dominated the council , wielded power with no more tact and delicacy than had the Despensers or Edward II ; Henry of Lancaster , Mortimer 's erstwhile ally , was excluded from policy-making in 1328 , and in 1330 the earl of Kent was accused of conspiracy and summarily executed , much to the alarm of the other nobles . |
| 21 | The crowd were settling in nicely to this when Ray ‘ Preston ’ joined John for a few numbers . |
| 22 | Using 3½× ¾in wooden slats resting on battens , I made spacers from the same wood , and glued these to the battens . |
| 23 | Also sentenced to 20 years and fined $4,700,000 on the same charge was a former Secretary of State for the Armed Forces , Lt. Gen. Manuel Antonio Cuervo Gómez . |
| 24 | Customers of the rival Lambeth Water Company , which took its water from the upriver source of Thames Ditton and which served houses in the same London streets , suffered only a sixth of their risk . |
| 25 | For example , in schools where all the teachers followed guidelines in the same way , the impact was positive . |
| 26 | He was not , in fact , the first to work with the Longhorns : a blacksmith named Welby living on the borders of Leicestershire and Derbyshire had been attempting systematic improvement of the type using animals from the Derbyshire herd of Sir Thomas Gresley of Drakelow House , Burton-on-Trent ( a herd which by 1720 was already uniform and impressively well matched for shape and colour ) , and a Mr Webster of Canley , near Coventry , bred animals from the same herd with stock from Westmorland and Lancashire . |
| 27 | All of these began work in the same week as the first Kindertransporte were given the go-ahead . |
| 28 | When , in 1651 , the Rump ordered guns from a former employee of his , Browne delivered an emotional remonstrance to the House of Commons : the state 's security , he claimed , depended upon a single gun-founder ; his enterprise employed a ‘ stock ’ of £30,000 , had overheads of at least £4,000 per annum , and had to be kept busy . |
| 29 | The report also expressed concern about the former exchange system . |
| 30 | I have yet to come across another dog who began life in the same way Sadie did which has now successfully integrated into society . |